Overview
- Ricks, 51, was executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit on March 11 and pronounced dead at 6:55 p.m. CDT.
- He became the second person executed in Texas this year and the sixth in the United States in 2026.
- The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles earlier denied his requests for a 90-day reprieve and for commutation.
- Survivor Marcus Figueroa, who was 12 at the time of the attack, watched the execution as Ricks apologized to him and other relatives in his final statement.
- Ricks was convicted of capital murder in 2014 for fatally stabbing Roxann Sanchez and her son Anthony in Bedford; he fled to Oklahoma after the killings and was arrested there, and his later appeals over shackling and jury selection were rejected by higher courts.